All 31 Uses of
grave
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- It was a sad thing to see all one's old friends and relatives slipping away, one after the other, leaving their grown sons and daughters weeping, soberly dabbing at their eyes with their neat white hankies, the grandchildren sitting on the gravestones or standing unwillingly solemn at the side of the grave while they lowered the coffin.†
Chpt 1
- Elsewhere--beside the Tonawanda--a woman was digging a grave for her illegitimate child three hours old.†
Chpt 1
- It was the wall you didn't see as you entered the room: so that when you came in you saw photographs, a window, chairs, plants on the windowsill and cabinet (dead), but when you went out you saw nothing, a dirty yellow wall as empty as a grave.†
Chpt 2
- "A grave responsibility," the minister said.†
Chpt 2
- He felt as if nothing could ever worry him again as long as he lived, and he said almost aloud as he walked past the glittering, grave-cold storefronts, "Do not say that thou art weary, O my soul, do not say, 'This Life is grief, the Strife is grim.†
Chpt 2
- "It's a grave indignity, having to sit on your hands," the Sunlight Man said.
Chpt 2 *grave = serious and solemn
- If his father had discovered the formula that would quiet their unrest (and perhaps he had: he'd given a bewildering emphasis to those final words, "Sure as day"), he'd taken the secret with him to the grave.†
Chpt 3
- He had that vague look again, like a man with grave responsibilities who's forgotten where he is.†
Chpt 3
- Your father would turn in his grave if he saw it, old family place been sold to niggers, and Ben's place turned to a motorcycle shop, that son of yours tearing down the Brumsteads' wooden fences and the other son up there in Buffalo working with the Communists.†
Chpt 3
- There was a big red self-propelled combine parked under the tallest of the tamaracks, beside it a yellow self-unloading wagon of newly combined wheat, beyond that a rusty corn chopper, two old tractors, a Gravely lawn mower, the school bus Ben had bought from the Alexander Central system, Ben's motorcycle, the truck.†
Chpt 3
- With surprising clarity he saw himself standing in the crowd as he imagined Ben and Vanessa had stood at the cemetery, observing the wrinkled grub-white policeman at the side of the grave, police cap resting on his belly.†
Chpt 3
- How sad for a would-be Romantic hero, she thought, and smiled again, detached and wearily fond, as though she were looking at her son from beyond the grave.†
Chpt 4
- You're digging your own grave, Clumly.†
Chpt 5
- They passed without a word, Ben politely lowering his eyes as if it were an everyday affair to meet a man brought back from the dead, a face half-rotted in the grave.†
Chpt 5
- Go through the Lydian land, past the tomb of Alyattes, the grave of Gyges and the pillar of Megastrys, the monument of Atys, son of Alyattes, big chief, and point your paunch against the sun's setting.†
Chpt 5
- They stood with heads bowed in the large crowd, waiting for the men from Bohm's to get the hearse backed up to the grave and the casket out.†
Chpt 5
- Those are his sons, those three over there by the lilac bush, other side of the grave.†
Chpt 5
- But just the same she was his dungeon and he would not be free till she was dead, and since she was younger than he was, and since women live longer, he would not be released until the day he stepped into his grave.†
Chpt 6
- Father would have turned in his grave!†
Chpt 6
- Ben laughed, too, hollow and terrible, and a year later when the news came that Ben Hodge Jr was dead in Korea, Will Jr would hear that laugh again, like a comment from beyond the grave.†
Chpt 8
- Beside the open grave the priest spoke English, sadly, with Italian feeling.†
Chpt 9
- One escaped from one jail into another and then to another and another until one escaped to the tightwalled grave.†
Chpt 12
- She heard him going back and forth over her head and she remembered dreams of someone walking on her grave.†
Chpt 12
- The Paxtons were a tableau beside the grave, the old woman in her wheelchair, the sons calm as trees behind her.†
Chpt 13
- When the prayer was over the people stirred, and some of them went closer to the grave, so that Will could not see any more.†
Chpt 13
- And he felt again the feeling that had come to him then, that all was well, though he himself was not part of it; the feeling a man might have if he could come back from the grave and find life not changed by his absence.†
Chpt 15
- But that was wrong, he knew; her French was bookish, and what gave him pain was not the memory of Stony Hill but the revelation of her alter-soul's entombment: She came alive, speaking French; all her humor irony and wrath came suddenly together like fire and powder, and the Millie who'd survived went dark and fell away, and the woman she'd once meant to be rose out of the grave of abandoned hopes, came striding forth, as confident as a smiling ghost at dusk.†
Chpt 15
- The Caverns of the Grave I've seen, And these I show'd to England's Queen, But now the Caves of Hell I view, Who shall I dare to show them to?†
Chpt 19
- Someone coughed, out in front of him, and he took it for one and said gravely, "If it's all right with you, I'd like to depart from my subject somewhat--"†
Chpt 24
- All the man's family there, standing around the grave, and his grandchildren standing there all dressed up, and his friends standing around crying and wringing their hankies and remembering all he ever said to them or did for them.†
Chpt 24
- It's a beautiful thing, the order in a man's life, and sometimes you wonder if that's not the only time it's visible, after he's dead and it's there beside his grave.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner